Worst incident at Fukushima for two years

The seemingly endless torrent of scandals rushing from the damaged nuclear reactors at Fukushima continues with the news that a serious incident is underway at the stricken plant. Once again we see that Fukushima’s owner TEPCO is utterly unfit to deal with the ongoing disaster.

The source of the leak is a mystery and there is no confirmation from TEPCO that it has been stopped. Right now, TEPCO has denied the possibility that the water is leaking into the Pacific Ocean but we’ve heard these reassurances before. TEPCO’s announcements simply can’t be trusted. The radioactive waste is flowing into the soil and it is just a matter of time that it will be taken towards the ocean by the groundwater.

Radiation levels found in one of the puddles are the highest found in the two and a half years since the reactors were destroyed. According to TEPCO, the leaked water contains 80 million Becquerel of beta radiation per liter. One location measured over 100 milliSievert per hour of radiation dose. The high contamination levels in the water means it will be extremely difficult for humans to clean it up - workers will easily be exposed to more than the maximum allowable limit of radiation.

Children walk along a road which a Greenpeace team found to contain high, unsafe levels of contamination.

Why wasn’t TEPCO monitoring these tanks properly? That such a massive amount of dangerous radiation could escape before anything was done is another damning scandal amid an ocean of damning scandals rushing from Fukushima.

How much more incompetence from TEPCO will the Japanese government tolerate? Why isn’t the company being held responsible? Nobody has been arrested or lost their jobs. Meanwhile, Japan’s Prime Minister Abe tours the world acting as salesman for the nuclear industry. The situation is absurd.

The chilling question now is: what might happen next? We’ve been saying things have been going from bad to worse for years. Things are now going from worse to what? Worser? We’re running out of ways to describe this never-ending nightmare.

It is long past time the Japanese government took over the disaster relief efforts and TEPCO’s executives were held to account. An urgent appeal for international assistance must be made immediately. This is an emergency none of us can afford to ignore.

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Jan Haverkamp - Greenpeace
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@Jeams Dean - Informing other people is a good first step, though. But that needs to translate in pressure on Japan's government to fundamentally ...

@Jeams Dean - Informing other people is a good first step, though. But that needs to translate in pressure on Japan's government to fundamentally reorganise TEPCO and the whole way the crisis is dealt with: no priority for TEPCOs financial bottom line and face, but for the victims and containing the disaster. You can write the Japanese government about that, for instance. Or ask your own government to pass that message.

Next to that, we need to increase pressure that also those who constructed the reactors - Hitachi, GE and Toshiba - are held responsible and help increasing the pool of money available to deal with the catastrophe and its victims, instead of getting money out of it by profitable clean-up deals. Sign our petition to that extent: http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/getinvolved/They-profit-you-pay/

And get involved in preventing that nuclear energy gets the chance to cause a next Fukushima: pressure your governments to choose for a clean energy path based on the development of energy efficiency and renewable energy sources. Block attempts of the current Japanese government, Russia, the USA, France, Korea and China to export nuclear technology, plead for a phase-out of the current nuclear fleet. And show that it can be done: develop efficient use and renewable sources.

Here in Poland we support local inhabitants in their efforts to stop the construction of new nuclear power in their backyard, we bring alternatives on the table in the national debate by lobbying, media, actions. In Slovakia we are going through court with the support of "normal people" to prevent the finalisation of two 1970s design nuclear reactors and just won a groundbreaking decision from the Supreme Court.

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(Unregistered) RenegadeResearchScientist
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Jan Haverkamp,
On a personal level, it would not be of the public's best intrest to contact the Canadian government regarding Fukushima via intermet. One reason being is that key words will draw attention towards others such as the CSEC. When Fukushim blew its lid in 2011, it was very appalling to discover that the media was not covering anything but the fact that a reactor blew up in japan. No mention of radiation. Articles that were written in Canadian papers were ALL mysteriously deleted and led the web browser lead you to a error 401 page. (Have copys of original papers).

After viewing the video of a Fukushima reactor explosion, it became obvious that it was not due to a buildup of hydrogen as the media claimed, as the explosion dynamics clearly suggests that the reactor itself blew its containment lid. (The initial shock wave looked as it came from a cannon and not from hydrogen buildup inside the building).

This prompted documented letters to Health Canada, Environment Canada that redirected my concerns to the Radiation Protection Bureau of Canada (RPB). Even though they replied to ten questions (months later) ignoring many or answering in some unrelated way to the original question or, just provided an international link to seek answers elsewhere. (There is much more to this unmentioned).

One question asked had to do with the integrety (honesty) of an official Japanese document, srep00304.pdf concerning plutonium (Pu) 241. The document states that Pu 241 is a beta emiter and for that reason, it is not much of a health concern to the public. If you look at a chart of nuclides it clearly shows that Pu 241 emits beta primarily and alpha as secondary particles (and gamma).

This is where my problems began. What happened next was, documents were provided to the RPB that CLEARLY show that Pu 241 is, primarily an alpha emitter and is not primarily a beta emitter as all mainstrem information provides. Now that attention has been brought to the RPB VIA email concerning facts that the RPB employees are probably unaware of, my communications have been heavily monitored and controlled!

Here are some examples as to how this occurs.

If an attempt is made to send an email containing words such as plutonium, radiation or government corruption etc, the email will not get sent. There are many emails that say they are sending and have been doing so for many months and some over a year!

If an attempt is made to send myself an email with red flag words (plutonium etc) within a email, they never arive! If the red flag words are vacant the gmail will arive.

When a website is accessed that display videoes (excluding youtube and a few others), there is no video available to see!

If an attempt is made to leave a comment on MOST websites containing red flag words, it will not be posted!

Some websites that were accessed regularly are now inaccessible! How? Simply by not allowing me to chose a language that I can read! However you could blame much of this on bad connection etc, or that the website is experiencing problems. This was proven to be not the case when the same websites were accessed simultaneously via cell phones. This proves that there are restrictions on my internet activities that the nuclear cartel controls.

The list goes on, I'm sure you get the picture. These people make me feel like a criminal and all that was done was attempt to disclose corruption to the RPB!

As one final word to highlight the power of these people, they deleted all personal emails from my gmail account that were sent to the many branches of the Canadian government. This aspect has been well documented in more then one way, all emails were documented (prior to deletion as this was anticipated) and copys were distributed to many.

The website that shows Pu 241 to be an alpha emitter is, www.isotopes.gov
as it states for Pu 241, "major radiation" alpha @ 4.9 MeV. Love providing proof along with fantastic claims, however this is not always possible.

This isotope.gov website manufacture isotopes to sell. Pu 241 is one of their products, who would know better about isotopes properties! Hmmmm, wonder why you need certification of legitimacy to request data of some elements? What do they have to hide? They show you many Pu species openly and many others, yet some are secret! Why?

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The agency that oversees this plant is corrupt as hell. The planet has been near code red now since July. Its so bad at this plant that any who goes i...

The agency that oversees this plant is corrupt as hell. The planet has been near code red now since July. Its so bad at this plant that any who goes into the reactor rooms for more than 7 minutes are guaranteed a death sentence . Worse yet, an American company from Seattle has been called into the plant to remove all the fuel rods otherwise there could be a disaster that would wipe out the entire Asia Pacific area. You can listen to numerous youtube reports. Its far worse than level 3, think more in terms of level 6 or 7.

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Jan Haverkamp - Greenpeace
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Dear maab30, the code red already exists since the earthquake struck the Fukushima coast on 11 March 2011. And has never really stopped - and will not...

Dear maab30, the code red already exists since the earthquake struck the Fukushima coast on 11 March 2011. And has never really stopped - and will not stop for many years to come. The entire accident is a level 7 accident. The level 3 that was mentioned now is related to the amount of radioactive material in the 300 m3 of water spilled now. But I agree with you, using the INES scale for parts of the much larger accident is only confusing. It can also be debated whether level 3 is sufficient for this also because it is unclear whether, or rather, likely that part of this material will stream in the sea and with that constitutes also a hazard outside of the plant.
Better just to call the Fukushima accidents what they really are: a level 7 catastrophe.

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Jan Haverkamp - Greenpeace
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In 2012, the Rainbow Warrior already visited the Fukushima coast and took samples of fish and sediment.
Greenpeace never announces campaigns or ...

In 2012, the Rainbow Warrior already visited the Fukushima coast and took samples of fish and sediment.
Greenpeace never announces campaigns or ship movements in advance, and also does a lot more than only our ship work. We will continue to be involved. Just watch this space.

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(Unregistered) Parzival
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I worked for Green Peace USA for 5 years knocking on people's doors on the East Coast and West Coast. I spoke to literally tens of thousands of pe...

I worked for Green Peace USA for 5 years knocking on people's doors on the East Coast and West Coast. I spoke to literally tens of thousands of people. Sadly Green Peace dismantled the "canvass" in the US which was a chief means of not only fund raising but of disseminating information to the general public. In those years I had the good fortune to speak at public schools and tell children how they could 'make a difference' in the world by being discriminate shoppers and voting with their dollars. That is how the tuna/dolphin and drift net campaigns made it possible for dolphin free tuna to become possible. Well a couple of decades later, humanity is at the brink with regards to nuclear energy and nuclear weapons proliferation. It's sad to see that humans haven't learned from their mistakes. Now a nuclear stream is flowing eastward from Japan heading towards the largest nursery for cetaceans on Earth. This may be 'The' mass extinction event as psychopaths attempt to rule the world by fear and violence, and large segments of our human population live in a state of denial and narcissism...
I'm glad to see Green Peace still working to attempt to make a better world for future generations.

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(Unregistered) RenagadeResearchScientist
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The media is only part to blame as the tip of the Fukushima iceberg is slowly but definitely exposed. Besides the obviious wilful negligence the goven...

The media is only part to blame as the tip of the Fukushima iceberg is slowly but definitely exposed. Besides the obviious wilful negligence the govenments commited towards their citizens by withholding vital information is an outright criminal act. The public physics educational system contains enormous amounts of misinformation.

One example is that older public educational textbooks teach that the CANDU reactors used here in Canada produce %54 of the energy that is created from the fissioning of Pu 239 (plutonium) and %30 from Uranium 235 (%6 modern books) and the remainder is other Pu isotopes and transuranic elements.

However according to a Canadian Nuclear Society fact sheet that states, only a fraction of energy is derived from Pu within a CANDU reactor, et al Joe blow.

And last but not least to partialy blame is the public themselfs due to nuclear physics ignorance! One reason I state this is for the fact that the EPA Radnet data shows that they detected U 234 and U 238 in similar amounts but not Pu 239 or Pu 238 across the USA in trace (downplayed) amounts. If the public only knew one simple fact that ALL reactor fuel cores consists of over %94 of U 238 and only %0.0055 of U 234!

How did the EPA data detect equal amounts of radiation when only a small fraction should exist of U 234 as compared with %94 U 238? This goes against logical reasoning and textbook physics! Also, without mentioning the exact reason why the Canadian radiation monitoring website data is highly contradicting of the EPA data and are in conflict.This is an obvious indicator that the radiation data from the USA and Canada are highly misleading and downplayed

ALL nuclear reactors produce Pu 239 in copious amounts is a textbook fact.
However if one was to visit the Ontario Pickerington NGS website to obtain a nuclear factbook, a pdf file, one would discover that the word plutonium is %100 vacant of the factbook! Instead what the reader will discover is that CANDU reactors use natural non-enriched U for fuel. Little does the public know that natural Uranium CAN NOT sustain a chain reaction for the fact that it can not librate enough neutrons. How does a CANDU reactor really work since mainstream science and government information fails to disclose truth.

How a CANDU reactor really works:
The reactors fuel core element that consists primarly of U 238 absorbs a stray nutron transmutating into U 239. The U 239 then decays into Np 239 (neptunium) that decays into Pu 239 all within a little over a few days time. Due to these textbook facts is the reason why ALL reactors produce Pu 239. THEREFORE IT IS IMPOSIBLE TO DETECT U 234 AND NOT ANY Pu 239 AT ALL! This would go against what older public educational textbooks teach.

If the public only knew these textbook facts, it would be the governments that would be sitting on the Fukushima corium and not the global population.

The public needs to be more vigilant and take action and be more aware. Prove the governments wrong and carry a Geiger counter next time you go on a flight over Canada or the USA and photograph the readings. Chances are that you will get readings into the thousands of cpm (hundreds minimum). It is unfair to the public that we are severely misinformed by our govenments regarding Fukushima fallout. This information is just the tip of a massive cover-up and downply of education and govrnment fact sheets and fact books.

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Klaus
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RenagadeResearchScientist says: "carry a Geiger counter next time you go on a flight over Canada or the USA and photograph the readings"

RenagadeResearchScientist says: "carry a Geiger counter next time you go on a flight over Canada or the USA and photograph the readings"
Do you have any photographs of this available (preferably with GPS readings) and where can they be seen? Please supply link.